Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-20

would easily believe that he was but
forty-five. He has sIngularly handsome
person and for years he was known as
he handsomest man IN Congress, and to-
day he does not look ten years older than
| he did when he was congress-
man. His head is covered by an
| abundant growth of dark brown hair
that is streaked with gray. He wears 70
moustacheiand his thick beard is always
| closely trimmed. His face is of youth
! full, though withal serious, caste. He has
a smooth complexion and his cheeks are
as rosy as any country girls. His fore
! head is high, broad and protruding, his
eyes dark brown or hazel and his face is
always lighted up with winning, sympa-
| thetic smile. His figure is of medium
height, he weighs about 100 pounds and
is excellently proportloned. He is care
full 10 his personal apparel and dresses
always in good taste, looking exactly
what he is, gentleman snd Senator.
The home life of Senator Allison is
simple an at the same time as delightful
as that OF any Of his constituents. He
owns one Of the most charming resi-
deIces in the capital. 1t is situated on
Vermont avenue in the very heart OF the
fashionable section. Among his immedi-
ate Belehbors are Senators Morrill,, Payne
and Edmunds, Just across the circle is the
modest mansion of Secretary Bayard and
next to it Is the elegant residence of JUS
tice Miller of the Supreme bench. The
house IS q rather peculiar one, surround
ed as it is by modern marvels of flaming
red brick. 1t is built Of brick, painted a
light drab color and is three stories high,
with a stone basement. 1t Is somewhat
above the avenue, having been built on 8
terrace, and this together with itsspfc-
turesque porch gives it striking and no.
ticeable appearance.
Entering the house you are struck with
the elegance of the tinishings. There are
four rooms on the first floor, with wide
hail running the length of the house. The
first room you enter is the parlCr 1t is
exguisitely furnished-Berlin rugs cover
the floors except at the edges where you
can see the .nlaid floors, bright anthracite
fires burn briskly in the open CRATES, the
beautifully carved mautels are ornament
ed with the rarest OF bTiC-a- brsC and the
walls are Respondent in fresco and taste
fully crowded with pictures in gilded
frames. The furniture is beautiful and
costly and scattered about the rooms are
a thousand and one things gathered in
years Ct travel.
The pictures, paintings and engravings
that adOrn the walls of every room in tie
house, need more than a passing notice.
In the front parlors some beautiful water
colors attract the eye. They are all well
selected and valuable and each tells its
own story without the aid of the critics
explanation. There are also few costly
oil paintings, but for the most part the
ty water Colors mounted in rich frames
Back of and next TO the parlor is the
family library. Here is collected a
richly bound books like handsome
men in holiday attire; there ere volumes
in sheepskin reminding one of dignitied
and pompOus lawyers; there are dainty
poems IN blue and gilt looking like fash
ionsble bellies, and then there are useful
looking volumes that make US think of
the working men and women of the
country. But this is not the only ROOM
in the house where you will ind books
They are like the pictures: you will lad
them everywhere. And nothing in a house
makes the cultured visitor feel more at
home. a room without books is like
house without woman and children. 1t
cell in a police station.
From the library you enter the dining
room. 1t is one of the most eXquisitely
finished and furnished rooms in the house.
1t is finished in oak like the famous din
ing halls of old England, and in Its clos
cts you will find one of the choicest col
leCtioDs of china to be found in America.
Mrs. Allison took the greatest pride in
her china end the Senator himself became
greatly Interested in assisting her in get-fI
ting up the collection. Ga the mas
sive table the caller will always find
flowers and large dish of fruit from
which he is invited to help himself. You
will notice rather strange piece of furni
ture in the dining room, and when you go
up stairs you will see its counterpart.
One and about the only crotcnet Senator
Allison mas is his hoice of chairs. When
at home he will sit in but one kind of
chair, and that is made expressly for him.
1t is very large, made of oak and is beau
tlfully carved, with very high back sur
mounted by cushioned rest for his head. |
After the Senator has eaten dinner he
generally throws newspaper over his
face, leans back on the rest and takes
short sieSta.
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